{"id":18691,"date":"2024-12-12T08:23:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=18691"},"modified":"2024-12-10T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:50:19","slug":"the-top-elizabethtown-college-news-stories-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/the-top-elizabethtown-college-news-stories-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top Elizabethtown College News Stories of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College experienced a transformative 2024, highlighted by the celebration of the College\u2019s 125th anniversary. Enjoy a look back at some of our most significant Etown News stories from the last 12 months, in chronological order.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These stories showcase an exceptional year filled with research, innovation, and community-building. Within these articles, you\u2019ll read about the accomplishments of our Blue Jays, and discover the many ways in which our community lives out Etown\u2019s Educate for Service motto.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Professor of Finance and International Business Earns Fulbright Award
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Dr. Hossein Varamini, Elizabethtown College Turnbull-Jamieson Chair and Professor of Finance and International Business earned a prestigious Fulbright Specialist Award for the spring of 2024. Varamini spent sabbatical leave this past spring at the Ecole Sup\u00e9rieure du Commerce et des Affaires University in Casablanca, Morocco. <\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Etown Launches Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Educational Leadership and Graduate Certificate in Higher Education
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The School for Graduate and Professional Studies (SGPS) is offering professionals a pathway to enhance their careers in the educational sector by launching the Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Educational Leadership and Graduate Certificate in Higher Education programs. Courses for both programs began in August 2024.<\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Power of One Day Receives Record-Setting Support
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An outpouring of generosity led to a record-breaking day on March 19 with 2,022 gifts from the Blue Jay community, raising a total of $675,087 \u2013 both new Power of One Day records.<\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Make A Deposit, Make A Difference Campaign Raises $20,000 for Lancaster-Lebanon Habitat for Humanity
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The College exceeded its expanded campaign goal for the fifth consecutive year to raise $20,000 for Lancaster Lebanon Habitat for Humanity.<\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/b><\/strong>Inaugural Public Health Cohort Graduates<\/b>
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Three years after the launch of the Elizabethtown College Public Health program, students from the inaugural cohort completed the requirements for graduation and were recognized at the College\u2019s 121st Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 11.<\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Inaugural Graduating Class of Entry-Level Occupational Therapy Doctorate Students is Celebrated
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Elizabethtown College celebrated the graduation of its inaugural class of entry-level Occupational Therapy Doctorate (OTD) students at the College\u2019s 121st Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 11. All seven graduates had previously earned their Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences from Etown.<\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Group of Blue Jays Travel to Vietnam for Service Trip
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Occupational Therapy, Social Work, and Physician Assistant Studies students and faculty drew on their Etown classroom experience to give back through service activities from May 10 through 25.<\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Elizabethtown College Welcomes 550 Incoming Students
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Elizabethtown College welcomed a total of 550 incoming students to campus this fall, which included 505 first-years who make up the Class of 2028 and 45 new transfer students. Interest in College from incoming students has never been higher with a record 3,618 first-year applications submitted by the Class of 2028.<\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Elizabethtown College\u2019s Dynamic Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-Being Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
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The Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-Being is celebrating its fifth anniversary serving the campus community during the 2024-25 academic year. Throughout its five years as a dynamic campus hub, the state-of-the-art facility has made a transformative impact through innovative programming and offerings that have improved the health and well-being of the Etown campus and surrounding community.<\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Blue Jay Student-Athlete Wins Modern Pentathlon at U.S. National Open in July
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Etown\u2019s Cross Country and Track & Field student-athlete Benjamin Ortiz Jaque \u201926 took home gold in the modern pentathlon at the 2024 U.S. National Open in Colorado Springs, Colo. in July.<\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Celebrating 2024 Charter Week and Homecoming and Family Weekend
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Students, employees, alumni, families, and friends joined together to celebrate Elizabethtown College\u2019s historic 125th Anniversary by taking full advantage of a fantastic lineup of fun Charter Week events, which included the 2024 Homecoming and Family Weekend from Sept. 23 to 29.<\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Student-Led Service Dog Training Program Continues to Grow on Campus
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Since launching in the fall of 2023, “Dogs in the Dell,\u201d a program designed to allow residential students to raise service dogs at Etown, has grown to three student puppy raisers now on campus.<\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a>New Anatomy and Physiology Classroom and Laboratory is Dedicated
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Future Blue Jay health professionals have a new dynamic space to call home with the unveiling of the Anatomy and Physiology Classroom and Laboratory, which was dedicated on Nov 7.<\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Alumnus Appointed Next-Gen Leader by the White House Historical Association
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Eric Schubert \u201923, an Etown History alumnus, was appointed to the 2024 Next-Gen Leaders (NGL) cohort by the White House Historical Association. The NGL initiative names influential young people who have a passion for history, civics, and education to serve as ambassadors for the White House Historical Association\u2019s work.<\/span><\/p>\nRead More<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College experienced a transformative 2024, highlighted by the celebration of the College\u2019s 125th anniversary. Enjoy a look back at some of our most significant Etown News stories from the last 12 months, in chronological order.\u00a0 These stories showcase an exceptional year filled with research, innovation, and community-building. Within these articles, you\u2019ll read about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":18702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,1339,774,775],"tags":[2255,197,1350,2104],"class_list":["post-18691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-alumni","category-arts-and-culture","category-campus","tag-2255","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-top-stories","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18748,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18691\/revisions\/18748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}